Università Roma Tre

The course is an introduction to the use of IT tools for the study of the English language. The module includes a theoretical part, in which the main themes of corpus linguistics will be described, in order to familiarize the student with quantitative and computational methodologies for the analysis of English linguistic data. In the second part, the main corpora and software for the study of the English language will be illustrated, and illustrative case studies will be proposed on the study of the lexicon and the syntagmatic properties of lexemes (e.g. collocations, multiword units), semantics (e.g. metaphor, metonymy, lexical polysemy) and the evolution of the English language (eg grammaticalization).

The following topics will be covered during the course:
-) the study of the English language through corpora;
-) word classes and their frequency in corpora;
-) the concept of collocation;
-) phrases and lexicon;
-) recurrent syntactic structures and textual typology;
-) metaphor and metonymy through corpora;
-) grammaticalization;
-) analysis of the text through the corpus;
-) the web as a corpus.

PROGRAM A.Y. 2019/2020 (relating to the course to be held in the second semester)

1) Hans Lindquist, Magnus Levin, Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2018 (all volume).

* 2) Anne O’Keeffe and Michael McCarthy (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, Routledge, 2010 (chapters 16, 22) (copy shop)


Recommended texts:
1) Maria Freddi, Linguistica dei corpora, Roma, Carocci, 2014 (strongly recommended).